Below we teach you how to make a backup in WhatsApp, a copy in which you can backup all the contents of your account, from the chats at photos and videos, also including the stickers, both on mobile iPhone (iOS) like in Android. And it is that WhatsApp It is one of the most popular instant messaging apps in the world. Therefore, for many users who change their cell phone every so often or who simply break it or lose it, it is essential to have a backup copy of their phones. conversations and media files, so that they can recover their entire WhatsApp on a new terminal; or in the same terminal if they decide to format it. Do not miss how to make a backup in WhatsApp, both for iPhone and Android.
How to backup WhatsApp
Index of contents
- How to backup WhatsApp on iPhone (iOS)
- How to backup WhatsApp on Android
- How to backup WhatsApp stickers
How to backup WhatsApp on iPhone (iOS)
Follow the following steps to make a WhatsApp backup on iPhone (iOS):
- Access the official app of WhatsApp on your iPhone.
- Click on the icon Setting located in the lower right corner of the screen to access the application settings.
- Now click on the entry Chats.
- Within Chats you must click on the option Backup.
- And within this menu you just have to click on Make a copy now to start WhatsApp backup.
Of course, just below this last step there are a couple of options that you can configure before making the backup, such as frequency of these automatic copies or if you want include the videos of WhatsApp in said copy (whether or not activating its own switch).
Please note that in the case of iPhone, the copy is stored in iCloud, the iOS cloud saving system along with all the media files, giving the option of including videos or not to make the data copy more or less heavy in size.
How to backup WhatsApp on Android
Follow the following steps to make a WhatsApp backup on Android:
- Access the official app of WhatsApp on your Android mobile.
- Click on the icon Settings in the shape of three ellipses located in the upper right corner of the screen to access the application settings.
- Now click on the option Chats.
- Within Chats you must click on the option Backup.
- Already in Backup, at the top you will see the date and time of the last backup made of your account, while at the bottom you will have several options to configure the backup of your WhatsApp account. So much so, that you can choose where do you want to save the copy (local or in the cloud using Google Drive), the frequency of said copies (daily, weekly, monthly...) or if the copy is made only via WiFi (the recommended option to avoid wasting mobile data) and if you want include the videos or not in the copy to make it more or less heavy.
- Once the different backup parameters have been configured, you can now click on the button Keep to make the copy at the moment, although you can also exit and let the copy be done automatically according to the parameters you have configured.
How to backup WhatsApp stickers
Beyond copying WhatsApp chats, images, and videos, you may also want to save the stickers shared with and by other users; the problem is that stickers are not saved with the rest of the backup, which will require an extra step dedicated solely to copying the stickers from your WhatsApp account to restore them in the future. To do this, it will be necessary to perform a small trick that we detail below.
So, if you want to save your stickers and avoid losing them when restoring your last WhatsApp backup, you will have to create a new chat with a trusted contact whom you can count on to send all those stickers that you want to keep in the new WhatsApp backup; once the new conversation is opened, Send him all those stickers that you want to keep. We know, however, that it is a tedious process, especially if there are many stickers that you want to keep, but for the moment it is the only viable method.
When you have sent all the stickers you want to keep to that contact, it is time to perform backup from your WhatsApp account following one of the two previous sections depending on the operating system of your mobile. Once your WhatsApp is restored, ask your contact to I sent you the stickers again that you sent before the backup to store them again in your WhatsApp account and use them again in your chats.
